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...Superstars? The Mariners and their fans are understandably pleased as punch at the way this season is turning out - they lost franchise centerfielder Ken Griffey Jr. to free agency and his hometown of Cincinnati before the 1999 season, and Alex Rodriguez to a the biggest payday in baseball history, a ten-year, $252 million contract with the Texas Rangers...
...point of the season, the 33-54 Reds have the worst record in the National League; Griffey was neither voted onto the All-Star team nor selected by NL manager Bobby Valentine. His replacement on the Mariners, the aforementioned Cameron, got a rousing standing ovation in Seattle when his selection by Torre to replace Vaughn was announced during a recent game...
...financially motivated loss of Griffey, Rodriguez and fireballer Randy Johnson in 1998 was supposed to consign the Mariners to eternal mediocrity. They had just reached a new plateau in the 1995 post season by coming from two games behind to edge the Yankees in a best-of-five game series that remains among the most exciting in recent years. Now they were being stripped apart, one star at a time, by baseball's merciless economics...
...baseball fans, but most of all for the citizens of Baltimore. He's theirs. Always was, for 21 years. It's an anomaly in today's sporting culture that a player could span his entire Hall of Fame career in one city. Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey Jr., Roger Clemens - all traveling salesmen by comparison. We cheer uniforms, not players (who can keep track?) these days, but Ripken made it easy to be an Orioles...
...Griffey Jr. hit by pitch, refuses to charge the pitcher: "I'd rather try to decapitate...